So obviously I'm late to the party. To be fair I had this game for a long while, but only played for a bit before stopping - adhd makes it hard for me to actually play the same game for long sometimes lol

I definitely had a good time with this game. I really enjoyed the story that was revealed between either messages from Casey, or notes left around the area by Hobson Twillgers. However, the gameplay itself did get a bit repetitive for me by the end. Don't get me wrong, it's still an amazing game that I do recommend, but once the story was done, so was I. Hit the credits, and I closed it. Maybe one day I'll go back to get more achievements, and perhaps it was the fact that I binged the game in only a few days (about 30 hours over 4-5 days), but I was ready to be done.

The graphics in this game are adorable, and I really did enjoy the scenery, especially in the moss area. The slimes were creative, but I found most of the largos to be a bit boring, and less my taste. TO be fair they're intended to be a cross of the two slimes, but personally I felt that it kept the form of one slime with a color change from the other, and then enhanced the size. I would have rather seen more combinations of the forms themselves, personally, but maybe that was just the largos I wound up creating and seeing in the wild. There we some that I liked, like the saber/tabby and hunter/tabby (clearly I love the tabby slimes hah), but I found myself mostly keeping the regular slimes around my ranch. It also allowed me to fit more slimes into a corral, because the largos could (obviously) stack more easily to escape.

Personally, I wasn't the biggest fan of the minigames unlocked. I did do them for the rewards unlocked (which were VERY useful), but I didn't actually bother doing them enough to unlock the extra corrals - it felt like too much of a hassle. By the time I could return to my ranch, most of my slimes had gone through their supply of food and I just had to run around to everyone collecting full things of plorts (to be fair, this was before I could get the drones).

I know I talked a lot about the parts that I personally didn't enjoy about this game but I do want to say that I overall had a great time - wouldn't have played so much otherwise. Most of these annoyances popped up towards the end, and could very well have just been from playing too much in so few days. And I don't think that the issues I had should be enough to turn anyone away from the game. Obviously it's not for everyone - no game is - but I do think it's worth checking out if the premise interests you. I do plan on picking up Slime Rancher 2 when it comes out, so clearly it wasn't enough to turn me away from the game. I'm sure most people have already played this game if they were interested, but if not, do check it out!